On Tuesday 25 November 2003 03:36 pm, Andreas von Heydwolff wrote: > There once was a free Linux port of PhotoPaint 9 from Corel running on > Corel Wine. It was buggy but I had it running quite nicely on my potato > system two years ago. I think it had import filters for CDR. > [...] > Why not grab a spare machine, throw an older distro at it and install PP > from some leftover archive on a forgotten ftp server.
Seeing as PhotoPaint is a *bitmap* program, this would not truly import the CDR data, but *render* or *rastorize* it. Which is probably not what the original poster wanted. It would be far better to use a tool which can actually convert *vector-to-vector*. Sketch does this with CMX files, but I don't really understand the relationship between CMX and CDR (I stopped using Corel Draw around version 3.0, and there was no CMX format then). I would *guess*, though, that there is some intermediate version of Corel Draw which can read and write both formats. So I'm suggesting: 1) Use Corel Draw to convert CDR -> CMX 2) Use Sketch to convert CMX -> sk (I think you can probably also get SVG out with Sketch, though I'd have to check that -- it can certainly import SVG, but I'm less sure about exporting). Cheers, Terry -- Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com ) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
